Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clearly, McMurtry’s evocative and unromanticized take on Western life is having a moment, and he’s the rare writer whose screen ...

About halfway through Charles Portis’s 1968 classic “True Grit,” the grizzled gunslinger Rooster Cogburn puts on a menacing show: He pulls his pistol, throws an empty whiskey bottle into the air, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in “Brokeback Mountain” (Kimberly French/Focus Features) When “Brokeback Mountain” hit theaters ...

At most McMurtry family reunions at the Clarendon Country Club, the days were split between mealtime and storytelling. After lunch, the aging uncles—all of them cowboys—would gather round and tell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The renowned bookstore founded in Archer City by award-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry has been closed for over two ...

Inside a one-story brick building at the center of Archer City’s main commercial street, surrounded by rows upon rows of rare books, George Getschow feels the presence of Larry McMurtry more than ever ...

Larry McMurtry's writing legacy will live on in his hometown of Archer City, Texas. His former bookstore, Booked Up, is set to become a literary center after Chip and Joanna Gaines recently sold it to ...

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. By David Streitfeld Try this short quiz on novels set around America’s 19th-century ...

The renowned bookstore founded in Archer City by award-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry has been closed for over two years, but Booked Up is getting a new life as a literary center. Chip ...